On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Why do I need to import the secret-key from disk to some local gpg to > that it can recognize the key on the smartcard at all?
It is not the secret key but a stub for the secret key. This allows gpg to ask you for the smartcard and display the serial numbger of the card it expects. You don't need to export/import that secret key stub as gpg should create that stub automagically. > 2) I bought a couple of SCM SPR-532 cardreaders. I learned that the > pin-pads are currently only experimentally supported by gpg > 2.something. Is there any chance that the pin-pad support will be > backported to gpg 1.4.x? In my daily work I use a KAAN Advanced but the SPR 532 works as well. Backporting is somewhat problematic as the automated passphrase interface (for GUI use) is not really able to display a notification popup to inform you that you should move your fingers over to the reader's pinpad. If you have gpg-agent (and scdaemon) installed gpg 1.4 will use the smartcard code from scdaemon can can thus utilize the popup feature provided by gpg-agent and pinentry. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
